Dinah Maria Mulock Quotes

Is this a proposal? I'm married now, you know.

I think if somebody commits to somebody by asking a woman to marry you, you should keep that commitment.

Wedlock is a padlock.

I had never considered marriage, but I had an open mind, and I was to learn after a brief try at it that most open minds should be closed for repairs.

"Marriage" is an internationally recognized word that says we are committed as a couple and are responsible for each other and any children that we have.

Marriage is an institution very safely guarded.

Matrimony is not a word, it's a sentence.

[Matrimony] is the grave of love.

Marriage is rather a silly habit.

Marriage is a public declaration of a man and a woman that they have formed a secret alliance, with the intention to belong to, and share with each other, a mystical estate; mystical exactly in the sense that the real experience cannot be communicated to others, nor explained even to oneself on rational grounds.

Some men are born for matrimony, some achieve matrimony -- but most of them are merely poor dodgers.

I do not like to have people throw themselves away; but everybody should marry as soon as they can do it to advantage.

As far as being married and what it means to me... it's nice knowing that I have a partner in life and that someone's got my back.

Marriage is hardly a thing one can do now and then, except in America.

Getting married is the boldest and most idealistic thing that most of us will ever do.

Grave authors say, and witty poets sing, That honest wedlock is a glorious thing.

As far as my experience of matrimony goes -- I think it tends to draw you out of, and away from yourself.

I'm not witch. I'm your wife.

I suppose I shall marry eventually One does that, one drifts into stability

Marriage is when two people are joined together to become one desperately boring person.

I will get married soon. It is in the pipeline. I believe in the institution of marriage.

Women when they marry buy a cat in the bag.

Marriage is like pleading guilty to an indefinite sentence. Without parole.

Marriage, which has been the bourne of so many narratives, is still a great beginning, as it was to Adam and Eve, who kept their honey-moon in Eden, but had their first little one among the thorns and thistles of the wilderness. It is still the beginning of the home epic - the gradual conquest or irremediable loss of that complete union which make the advancing years a climax, and age the harvest of sweet memories in common.

Marriage? That's for life! It's like cement!